Originality Quotes, Sayings about being original

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
– James Stephens

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Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality.
– Kahlil Gibran

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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
– Lawrence J. Peters

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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
– Jorge Luis Borges

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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
– Stephen Fry

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Once you learn a language you will never have an original thought.
Because every aspect of your thoughts are defined in words that already exist.
At best you can be somewhat of an inventor, like combining a spoon and a fork.
What technology today is really new? Most just seem a combination of two or more old things.